RADIO NOTE: Grace B. Park writes, “While you are highlighting
Bradford radio personalities, how about some popular shows that
were aired? Does anyone remember ‘Breakfast in Bradford’? It was my
mother’s favorite show. It was broadcast from the Emery Hotel.”

PFC. STRYKER: Jim Flynn sheds some light on the term “Stryker
Brigade” – the new terminology for the Pennsylvania National
Guard.

He passes along background on Army Pfc. Stuart S. Stryker, who
received the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II.

A Portland, Ore., native, Pfc. Stryker was a member of Company
E, 513th Parachute Infantry, 17th Airborne Division.

He earned the Congressional Medal of Honor when he was a platoon
runner when his unit was assembled near Wesel, Germany, after a
descent east of the Rhine.

Attacking along a railroad, Company E reached a point about 250
yards from a large building used as an enemy headquarters and
manned by a powerful force of Germans with rifles, machine guns,
and four field pieces.

One platoon made a frontal assault but was pinned down by
intense fire from the house after advancing only 50 yards.

So badly stricken that it could not return the raking fire, the
platoon was at the mercy of German machine gunners when Pfc.
Stryker voluntarily left a place of comparative safety, and, armed
with a carbine, ran to the head of the unit.

In full view of the enemy and under constant fire, he exhorted
the men to get to their feet and follow him. Inspired by his
fearlessness, they rushed after him in a desperate charge through
an increased hail of bullets.

Twenty-five yards from the objective, the heroic soldier was
killed by the enemy fusillades.

His gallant and wholly voluntary action in the face of
overwhelming firepower, however, so encouraged his comrades and
diverted the enemy’s attention that other elements of the company
were able to surround the house, capturing more than 200 hostile
soldiers and much equipment. Soldiers also freed three members of
an American bomber crew held prisoner there.

The action took place on March 24, 1945, and the citation was
awarded Dec. 11, 1945.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Audacity is a necessary feature of every good
editorial.”

That’s the word today from an editorial in Missouri Editor,
1894. As always, today’s quote is from the Freedom Forum, dedicated
to free press, free speech, free spirit.